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5 unusual facts about Cosmic Slop


Cosmic Slop

Rock band My Morning Jacket reworked the main guitar part for the song "Run Thru" on their 2004 release, It Still Moves.

Cosmic Slop is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who assumed responsibility for the band's gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band's collapse after 1981's The Electric Spanking of War Babies.

Cosmic Slop Shop

Doonie Baby, Big Lurch, and Rick Rock met at Slop Shop Studios in the San Francisco Bay area and formed Cosmic Slop Shop, condensing the studio's name with Cosmic Slop, the 1973 album by Funkadelic.

Nicholas Turturro

Cosmic Slop (1994) (TV) - Father Carlos (segment "The First Commandment")

No One Can Do It Better

Most of the songs were influenced and sampled from funk artists such as Marvin Gaye, Parliament, and Funkadelic, but one track in particular was influenced by other genres, "Beautiful But Deadly", a rock-hip hop track, influenced by Run-D.M.C. with a heavy guitar riff throughout the song (it borrows from Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop).


Yertle Trilogy

The rest of the song is jams of various Funkadelic or Parliament songs, such as "Cosmic Slop" and "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!)", as well as John Frusciante's "Untitled #2".


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